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Monday, July 28, 2014

The New York Times ran the
following article title on its website homepage July 28th: "Enmity and Civilian Toll Rise in Ukraine," with the subhead: "After
the tragedy of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17, the deaths of roughly 800
civilians in eastern Ukraine have gone virtually unnoticed by the
outside world."

Well, thank YOU for noticing, New
York Times. Of course, "outside world" is merely a
cover-up euphemism for U.S. bloc governments and media. The New
York Times often plays this disingenuous game of calling
something "little noticed" when it itself has failed to
report something. It's a slippery dodge of their responsibility.

Actually I've been "noticing"
the Ukrainian civilians killed, as readers of my previous essays here
can see. Last time I checked I was in this world and outside Ukraine.
But the Times did say "virtually unnoticed," so ok.

No, I take that back. Isn't Russia
"outside" Ukraine? RT in America has certainly covered the
death and destruction rained down on the civilian population in the
newly-declared Republics in east Ukraine. Of course that's just
"Russian propaganda," so it doesn't count as part of the
world either, I guess.

Israel has outdone Petro "Candyman"
Poroshenko and his regime, killing over a thousand Palestinians, and
wounding or maiming about 4,000, in just a few weeks, not months as
in Ukraine. I haven't been able to write at length about the horror
show going on in the Gaza concentration camp that much. The
propaganda being put out by the Israelis, their global propaganda
network, and their most important lackeys, the U.S. government and
political class, is just so sickening that it is hard to write
without getting apoplectic. And I don't write at my best when I'm
apoplectic. But others have covered this well, especially at
democracynow.org. I urge my readers to check out the coverage
and interviews there on the latest overt Israeli war against the
Palestinians.

The U.S. military and unnamed secret
police agencies are planning to strip the breakaway Republic of
Donetsk in eastern Ukraine of the ability to defend itself from
aerial attacks launched by the Western-installed Kiev regime. (The
secret police agencies are referred to as “American intelligence”
in U.$. media accounts, and probably include the CIA and various
military spy agencies like the NSA, and the National Reconnaissance
Office, which handles spying by U.S. satellites.) The recent downing
of two Kiev regime attack jets by the separatists, days after the
ill-fated Malaysian airliner was shot down while recklessly
overflying an active war zone, has raised worries in Washington, the
Imperial City, about the ability of their newest client regime to
impose its will and its writ over the breakaway territories. The plan
is to provide targeting information on the location of anti-aircraft
missiles so the Kiev regime could attack them. The CIA and U.S.
military are arguing that Putin Must Be Stopped or else he’ll be
“emboldened.” They want to provide the targeting information, as
does Secretary of State John “I Used To Kill Vietnamese” Kerry.
So they’ve begun a pressure campaign to convince President Hamlet-
I mean Obama- to give the plan the green light. [1]

Taking away people's ability to defend themselves is a moral crime.

The Kiev regime refers to the eastern
separatists as “terrorists,” which these days means people who
should be summarily murdered, who deserve nothing but death. Pair
this with the insistent U.S. demands that Moscow cut off the
separatists cold, leaving them at the mercy of Western forces, and
you see how sinister this all is. Hundreds of noncombatant civilians
have already been killed in the eastern area of Ukraine by the Kiev
regime, most by aerial and artillery bombardment. Deprived of the
means of self-defense against aerial attack, the population of the
breakaway regions will be mercilessly bombarded, like Guernica was
bombarded by the fascist forefathers of the Kiev coupists, or like
Gaza is being bombarded today.

U.S. militarist fanatics like Senator
“My Arms Still Hurt From Vietnam” McCain are demanding that the
U.S. rush arms to the Kiev regime. (Madman McCain has never met a
foreign affairs problem he didn’t want to solve by bombing.) And
the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the top military officer
in the U.S., General Martin Dempsey, is talking like someone who just
stepped out of a time machine from 1950, seeing a Russian attempt to
take over the world. At an imperialist gabfest called the “Aspen
Security Forum” staged in the state of Colorado, Dempsey
threat-mongered that “You’ve got a Russian government that has
made a conscious decision to use its military force inside another
sovereign nation to achieve its objectives.” [The U.S. would
never do that!] “They clearly are on a path to assert
themselves differently not just in Eastern Europe, but Europe in the
main, and towards the United States.” (July 24th.) [2]

The
truth is, Russia has been reactive. It
has been reacting to the U.S.-EU takeover of Ukraine.

In addition to his innate imperialist
instincts automatically trying to create “threats” to provide
pretexts for his own nation’s aggressive imperialism, Dempsey no
doubt sees an opportunity to pound the table for more money for the
Pentagon. This has been going on relentlessly since a few years after
World War II ended in 1945. In that time, the U.S. has poured
trillions of dollars into the insatiable maw of its
military-industrial complex.

Of course, if the U.S. and its
Eurolackeys hadn’t subverted the previous elected Ukrainian
government, causing the fissures in Ukrainian society to fracture and
split the country, the current “crisis,” which Western
apparatchiks and propagandists mendaciously insist on blaming Russia
for, wouldn’t exist. By now, having repeated their own agitprop
daily for months, they have probably brainwashed themselves into
believing it, if they didn’t at the outset. The imperialist
adventurism of the U.S. created the present situation, and with
colossal gall, the U.S. then accuses Russia of imperialist
adventurism and “interference” in Ukraine! Russia is seen
to have aggressive ambitions far beyond its borders- not the U.S.!
Just as in the Cold War, dark insinuations of Russian intentions to
invade and take over Europe are bruited about, to justify U.S.
aggressive expansionism.

Psychologists and psychiatrists have a
word for this: projection. Others might call it simply
hypocrisy, or chutzpah. Whatever one calls it, it makes for a
politically sleazy, tawdry, disgusting spectacle. Unfortunately it
also costs some of “the little people” their lives, people caught
in the pot the political power-mongers set aboiling.

The U.S. does not think Russia has any
right to have national interests. Therefore the U.S. has every right
to drive Russia completely out of a country right on Russia’s own
border. The U.S., on the other hand, is convinced it has a right to
rule every square inch of the earth it possibly can. Those
“aggressive” Russians need to learn that if they want to be a
respectable member of “the international community” (the
club of U.S. lackeys).

1] An opening salvo in the
pressure campaign is a page one story in the Sunday, July 27th
(maybe Saturday on its website) New York Times, the preeminent
bulletin board where the American ruling class and power elites post
messages. The story is referenced in footnote [2]. The NYT
calls their acting as a transmission belt for anonymous messages from
unnamed “sources” “journalism.” It’s the sort of
“journalism” that helped lead the American public by the nose,
like a dumb donkey, into the invasion of Iraq.

2] The New York Times
characterized Dempsey’s hyperventilating thusly: “The shooting
down of the Malaysian Airlines plane, on top of Russia’s earlier
shipments of heavy weaponry, were a perilous escalation of the crisis
that threatened to menace all of Europe and the United States,
General Dempsey said.” (“U.S. Could Help Ukraine Target Rebels’ Missiles,” Sunday, July 27th, pages 1 and
8, second to last paragraph.) Threatened to menace all of Europe
and the United States. Shades of the Red Peril!

Saturday, July 26, 2014

U.S. Secretary of State John “I’m a
Hawk Now!” Kerry has been attacking Russia over the destruction of
a Malaysian airliner flying where it had no business being, namely
over a war zone in eastern Ukraine, where just three days earlier a
military transport plane was shot down by a missile. Kerry says it’s
the Russians’ fault because they allegedly gave the missile system
to the secessionists (ignoring the fact that the rebels have seized
many weapons from Ukrainian armories and captured others) and trained
them. (Many of the separatists are military veterans who were already
trained in the past, as Kerry no doubt knows.) Kerry talks as if the
shoot-down of the airliner was a deliberate act, outrageous, even
though he himself presented smoking gun evidence it was an
accident, that the separatists thought they had shot down
another military transport.

Here’s Kerry on television attacking
the separatists for shooting down the airliner, aired on Sunday, July
20, 2014:

“We know that very shortly thereafter, separatists were bragging
in the social media about havingshot down a transport
plane,” Kerry said on Fox “News” Sunday, one of FIVE TV yak
shows he made the rounds of that morning. “We know that the
so-called defense minister of the People's Republic of Donetsk, Mr.
Igor Strelkov, actually posted a bragging social media posting of
having shot down a military transport. And then when it became
apparent it was civilian, they pulled it down from social media.”
[Emphases added.]

What could be clearer? “Separatists bragged” they “...shot down
a transport plane,” “...shot down a military transport.”

And there’s more: the U.S. State Department confirmed that Kerry
was referring to a post from Strelkov’s profile on Russia’s
version of Facebook, called Vkontakte. The post, uploaded
approximately 30 minutes after the Malaysia Airlines flight crashed,
talked about a military transport plane being shot down.

So it WAS AN ACCIDENT, right Kerry? Right? Well, right or wrong?

“We have warned them – not to fly ‘in our sky’,” the post
stated. In other words, there was a declaredno-fly zone
in which planes were subject to being fired on. (Kind of like Israel
declaring a blockade on Gaza, and attacking ships that try to sail
there anyway. Or declaring a limit on how far from shore fishermen
can go, and firing on their boats. And the U.S. considers that just
fine, even though Israel isn’t under naval bombardment, isn’t
under aerial attack, isn’t besieged, isn’t being invaded as east
Ukraine is. In other words, the separatists are actually defending
themselves from attack, not blockading and crushing a foreign
population.)

Strelkov’s post was subsequently deleted, leading Kerry and others
to conclude that it was removed after Strelkov realized
that it was a civilian plane. Yet Western political bosses,
apparatchiks, and the complicit medias of their nations are carrying
on as if the separatists deliberately shot down a civilian
airliner. Even though the evidence they themselves present
prove the opposite. Same with the audio intercepts the new
Billionaire Boss of Ukraine Petro O. Poroshenko presented to “prove”
the shoot- down was a terrorist act. The tapes prove the opposite-
namely that the separatists thought they’d hit another military
transport, and when they arrived at the wreckage, were dismayed to
discover otherwise, resulting in cursing and expressions of
astonishment at the route the plane had taken.

The fact that Kerry and Poroshenko can use evidence which directly
contradicts their position and pretend it proves their point starkly
illuminates the degree of their cynicism and contempt for facts and
honesty.

There is blame to go around here. But most of it belongs on the
irresponsible Malaysian Airline System that recklessly and
negligently endangered its passengers, the Kiev regime, for its
months-long war against the “terrorists” who defy their
“authority” (power), and perhaps some on an ill-trained
separatist air defense crew which didn’t check if their target was
broadcasting a civilian ID from its transponder.

Now there’s a question nobody asked. Was the transponder properly
broadcasting? Given the incompetence and fecklessness of Malaysian
Airline System, I wouldn’t take it for granted. But it is also true
that the separatists were surprised that a civilian airliner would be
flying over the area, after warnings not to, from the separatists,
and even from foreign aviation authorities in the U.S. and Europe.
Other airlines were avoiding the area, some for months, and a
Kiev regime military transport was shot down just three days earlier.
What sort of dimwitted airline company would ignore all that?

None of which is to deny the tragedy of it. Whereas the tragedy of
hundreds of Ukrainians killed in the months-long military offensive
that Western-installed Kiev Billionaire Boss Poroshenko is ignored.
And the tragedy of Palestinians being slaughtered once again, their
homes, hospitals, schools, mosques, and sole power plant in the Gaza
concentration camp destroyed, isn’t a tragedy to the politicians,
apparatchiks, and propagandists of the Western power structure, but a
political problem and a public relations problem ONLY. (A
half-sentence throwaway line in an Obama statement feigning “concern”
notwithstanding.) Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp are
down to three hours of running water- not a day, once every THREE
days. Perhaps epidemics of typhoid and typhus will soon cut down the
population of Palestinians, as the Nazis found effective in
eliminating Russian POWs and concentration camp inmates. Actually
Israel has been causing disease among the Palestinians for years now.
They do this by taking most of the water from the aquifers in the
West Bank, selling a little back to the Palestinians, and forcing the
Palestinians to make do with rainwater captured in cisterns, which
causes diseases, especially in children, including kidney failure.
The “settlers” use 7 times as much water per person as
Palestinians in the West Bank are allowed.

As I mentioned in a previous essay, there HAVE been cases of
deliberate shooting down of civilian airliners. There was the U.S.
Navy shooting down of an obviously civilian Iranian jetliner, minutes
after take-off from Tehran, in a known civil air corridor, ascending,
its transponder broading its ID as a civilian airliner, during
murderous Reagan regime. Reagan rewarded the captain of the guilty
ship with a medal, and blamed the Iranians for the crime. And the
U.S. Navy shot down TWA Flight 800 over Long Island Sound, either
accidentally, or deliberately as part of a false flag “terrorist
atrocity” operation that fell apart. [1]

Israeli jets chased and downed a Libyan airliner of the Sinai desert,
which Israel had conquered from Egypt in 1967. And Korean KAL-007 (as
in James Bond, Double-O-Seven) was shot down overflying strategic
Soviet missile sites, after “straying” many hundreds of miles off
course, “inexplicably.” Actually it was very explicable, as a
number of books and articles made clear. The U.S. wanted to force the
Soviets to activate their air defense systems, so as to better plan
how to defeat those systems in order to destroy the Soviet Union’s
nuclear deterrent force. The Korean plane was bait to force them to
do that. The shoot-down was propaganda icing on the cake. Literally
within minutes (maybe seconds) of the downing, a global anti-Soviet
propaganda campaign swung into action. By the way, Richard Nixon had
been booked on that flight but was warned off. Not so John Birchite
Congressman Larry MacDonald. Apparently he couldn’t be trusted to
keep his mouth shut if the plane was shot down, obviously considered
a real possibility by the U.S. criminal deep state masterminds of the
operation. I should add that South Korea at the time was a military
dictatorship totally obedient to U.S. orders. I would hope that today
no South Korean airline would participate in such a reckless,
criminal scheme.

1] Numerous witnesses saw the bright missile streak rising
from the ocean skywards and blowing apart the jet. The recovered
wreckage had indisputable signs of a missile strike.Yet the
FBI suppressed and distorted the witnesses’ accounts to orchestrate
a coverup. Bizarrely, the CIA then put out a nutty video purporting
to show that what the witnesses saw was flaming wreckage falling
DOWN, not the trail of a missile going UP, and they were all
mistaken. As if people don’t know the difference between up and
down. The CIA is not a law enforcement agency. The CIA is not an
airline crash investigation agency. So what the hell was the CIA
doing creating and putting out this video? In other words, the CIA’s
act smacked of that of a guilty criminal trying to allay suspicion.
The CIA would have been better to keep its damn mouth shut instead of
attracting attention to itself. Shades of the JFK assassination!
Hence the suspicion that this was perhaps planned as a staged
“terrorist event,” but only went halfway through, just as part of
the JFK assassination plot was aborted- the planned U.S. invasion of
Cuba after “Castro agent Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated the
president.” The CIA created a “legend” for Oswald portraying
him as a Castro agent. Evidently they couldn’t get the U.S.
military and other elements of the U.S. power structure to go along
with that part of their plot.

Aww come on, John, it was an accident. Not like those Vietnamese you
killed with your own hands.

Thursday, July 24, 2014

The reaction of the power structures of
the U.S. bloc to the shooting down of a Malaysian airliner over
Ukraine contrasts nicely to their complete silence- indeed ignoring-
of the deliberate murder of four Palestinian boys playing soccer on a
Gaza beach by an Israeli gunboat the day before. Or for that matter
the killing of around 700 Palestinians in the past few weeks in what
NPR calls an Israeli “incursion” (there’s euphemism for
invasion for you) or “fighting between Hamas and Israel.”

There is an overriding FACT that must
be stressed in the shooting down of the Malaysian airliner- that IT
WAS AN ACCIDENT! This is proven by the intercepted communications
released by the Kiev regime that they have been waving like a bloody
flag that they say are between the Ukrainian rebels and one of the
rebel commanders, and with a Russian intelligence Colonel. It is
clear from the recordings that the rebels thought they were shooting
down a Kiev regime military transport, and were surprised to find
Malaysian airliner markings on the wreckage when they got to the
scene. The BBC played excerpts, with translations, of these
recordings. (The details are below.) A New York Times reporter
interviewed on the BBC said there were “very many bombings in the
area” by the Kiev regime’s air force. Given that the area is
under aerial attack, and the rebels shot down a Kiev military
transport just a week earlier over the same area, it is not
surprising that such an accident would occur. Other airlines
previously rerouted their planes to avoid overflying the area, two of
them having done so months ago (CBS reported), and others within the
last few weeks. Malaysian Airlines, obviously incompetent and cheap,
to save money on fuel probably, refused to do so. Now the Malaysians
are saying they had every right to fly over the area, it’s
perfectly normal to do so. [1]

The FAA issued a warning on April 3rd
prohibiting U.S. carriers from overflying parts of eastern Ukraine.
The European Aviation Safety Agency also issued a warning to
airlines. Yet Malaysian Airline System flew right over an area that
has been under aerial bombardment for months and over which a
military transport jet had been shot down by a missile just three
days earlier on July 14th. [2]

Even their own evidence that it was an
accident didn’t stop the Western stooges installed in power in Kiev
from screaming “terrorism!” “atrocity!” and “crime!”

Western media are wringing their hands
in grief over the 300 or so people killed on the Malaysian jet.
They’ve barely uttered a peep about the hundreds of eastern
Ukrainian civilians killed by aerial and artillery bombardments of
their towns and villages by the Kiev regime.

And here’s an irony that apparently
escaped Ukraine kingpin, “president” Petro. O. “I’m
a Billionaire From Selling
Candy!” Poroshenko: in
2001, Ukraine shot down a civilian airliner and lied, denying it did,
until soon forced to fess up. [3]
So
accidents DO happen, contrary
to his immediate insistence that the downing of the plane was a
deliberate act of “terrorism.” For good measure, right-wing
Australian prime minister Tony Abbott, who was elected on a platform
of making global warming worse, demonstrated
his bona fides
as a U.S. stooge and political handmaiden by attacking the shoot-down
as a “crime.” His
Malaysian counterpart ran cover for the irresponsible, inept,
penny-pinching state airline company by insinuating criminality and
vowing to get to the bottom of it. (I say penny-pinching because
flying over the war zone was a shorter path to the plane’s
destination.)

It’s
germane to mention some deliberate
downings of civilian jetliners at this point. The Israeli
air force chased and shot down a Libyan airliner over the Sinai
desert (Egypt). The U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian airliner which was
flying in a civilian commercial air corridor over the Persian Gulf.
Both of these acts were deliberate. [4]

In
the last couple of days we have been fed a new propaganda theme, such
as by the BBC: the awful disrespect towards the bodies of those
killed in the Malaysian plane. This “disrespect” apparently
consists of the fact that all the corpses weren’t IMMEDIATELY
scooped up and delivered to the Netherlands. The BBC (and U.S.
corporate establishment media) hasn’t even whispered about the fact
that ambulances can’t even go to villages in Gaza under Israeli
bombardment because the Israelis deliberately shoot at the ambulances
to drive them back. Or that patients are being killed in hospitals by
Israeli bombardment. 46 schools and 7 hospitals in Gaza have been
bombed, and as usual, Israel is targeting UN facilities for attack.

But
the failure of a ragtag militia to immediately collect hundreds of
bodies strewn over a wide area- as if there are mortuary workers and
facilities there to handle it- that’s an outrage.

Contrast
all this with an actual deliberate crime that Israel committed a day
earlier, July 16th,
in Gaza, when using one of their gunboats they deliberately killed
four young boys playing football. (Called soccer in the U.S.) It was
a broad daylight attack witnesses by numerous journalists in a hotel
on the beach. A first shot missed them, and the boys started running.
A second shell finished them off. The journalists said the boys were
clearly recognizable to the naked eye as children from hundreds of
yards away, on a big empty beach. Obviously the crew of the gunboat
would have binoculars, not to mention sophisticated surveillance
equipment, plus aerial surveillance. Israel has been issuing blanket
statements blaming all civilian deaths in Gaza on Hamas, since Hamas
won’t surrender. The U.S. agrees and calls the bombings of 7
hospitals, 46 schools, numerous mosques, hundreds of homes,
ambulances and the power plant “self-defense.”

So
how did the Western media handle this? Well, it wasn’t uniform-
except in the U.S. The pretense that it must have been unintentional
was maintained, despite numerous journalist eyewitnesses. NBC
wouldn’t allow its own reporter, who saw the attack, to report it,
and immediately yanked him out of Gaza, obviously to put him on ice.
(NBC was forced to reverse the decision thanks to the empowering
nature of the Internet, which provides an alternative means of
communicating news outside the monopoly corporate propaganda system.)

BBC
didn’t use words like “horrifying” and “awful” for this
incident. No imputations of criminal intent were made by it or the
other organs of Western propaganda. There hasn’t been a weeklong
propaganda campaign beating the drums and rallying “the world” to
oppose Israel in righteous outrage, as they’re trying to do against
the Ukrainian separatists and Russia.

So
we have, on the one hand, a tragic accident in a war zone that has
been under attack from months by a regime that calls the people it is
killing “terrorists.” That accident is branded as “terrorism”
and a “crime.” On the other hand, a powerful nation is attacking
an already-besieged people, has killed as of this writing about 800
(75-80% of whom were civilians, according to the UN), has wounded
over 3,000, is bombing the hospitals, schools, and UN facilities, and
the reaction of the U.S. and its stooge nations and their media is-
gee, isn’t Hamas awful! They’re firing rockets at Israel.

Selective
outrage and selective indifference. And the explanation lies in
cynical power politics.

1]
The
BBC aired long
descriptions of wreckage and bodies, personal items on the ground,
from Sabrina Tavernise of the New
York Times.
“There’ve been many bombings by Ukrainian jets in the area
recently” she says, apropos of saying locals thought the explosion
was “just another bombing.” “It’s a very confused situation
on the ground.” Tavernise describes the plane “crashing
practically
on top
of their village, I mean it was very
close.” [Tavernise’s emphases.] BBC, July
18, 2014,
the
day after the shoot-down.

The Kiev regime put forth three tapes
of what they said were intercepted calls between the rebels and
Russia. The Kiev regime is pretending the tape prove the downing was
a deliberate act of terrorism. Assuming the tapes are genuine, in
fact they prove the shoot-down was an accident. (BBC played
excerpts showing that- a fact BBC then ignored.) The rebels thought
they’d shot down a military transport plane, then discovered when
they went to the wreckage site that it was a civilian plane,
resulting in cursing, not jubilation. There was mystification as to
why a civilian plane was flying over a war zone.

One call is between a rebel commander
and a Russian intelligence Colonel 30 minutes after the shoot-down.
The rebel reports that they shot down “a plane,” and men have
been dispatched to investigate. No mention of a civilian jetliner.
The Russian asks about “Pilots? Where are the pilots?” clearly
thinking it was a military plane and the pilots may have bailed out.

Another call, allegedly between “a
rebel commander and one of his officers” was played with
translation by the BBC: “What was it doing in the Ukraine’s
territory?” “That means they were carrying spies. They shouldn’t
be flying. There’s a war going on!” Then BBC “News
editor” Dina Newman
in the BBC studio comments on the tapes: “There seems to be genuine
surprise when they realize that a civilian plane was shot down
and they cannot understand why the civilian plane was flying
over an area where there was war going on.” [Her emphases.]
She mentions “a lot of swear words” that BBC didn’t translate.

The fact that this key “evidence”
of “guilt” put forth by the Kiev regime proves the shoot-down was
an accident is deftly elided by U.S. media. Meanwhile Western
political rulers from Obama on down are waxing wroth and fulminating
over the “outrage” and “crime.” Tragedy would be the correct,
that is, accurate and honest, word. But politicians deal in
cynical manipulation, thus speak propaganda, not accurate and honest
words.

2]
Obama’s
immediate response to the
shoot-down of the Antonov military transport, an
act of self-defense by the separatists fighting for their
self-determination and their own nation- they declared themselves a
new Republic, not part of Russia- was to heap harsh new sanctions on
Russia. OBAMA:
“Given its continued provocations in Ukraine, today I have approved
a new set of sanctions on some of Russia’s largest companies and
financial institutions.”

3]
On
October 4, 2001,
Ukraine shot down a Siberian Airlines Tupolev TU-154 civilian
airliner on its way to Tel Aviv, using an S-200 missile to do the
deed. The Ukrainian regime at the time lied about it and denied it,
before eventually ‘fessing up and saying it was an “accident.”
But
you didn’t know this

because
you’re relying on the “news” media to keep you informed. Big
mistake. You have to spent thousands of hours of your own time,
unpaid, reading all kinds of esoteric sources, to keep up on things.
Or rely on others who do. This interesting incident was in Aviation
Week & Space Technology,
a U.S. trade journal for military and civilian aircraft
manufacturers. It ran in the July 21, 2014 issue, “Malaysian
777 Shoot-Down Another Big Blow,” p.
12.

Monday, July 21, 2014

72 Palestinians were slaughtered by the
Israeli army in an assault on a very poor residential area in the
Gaza concentration camp.

These were not “militants” or
“terrorists” or people firing rockets. These were Palestinian
civilians.

Heavy Israeli artillery shelling
prevented ambulances from going in.

Israel has as of this writing killed
over 500 Palestinians in the Gaza concentration camp and wounded over
3,100, who lack medical care.

Israeli Premier Binyamin Netanyahu says
Israel didn’t choose to attack Gaza, but it “was forced on us.”
Yeah, like Poland forced Hitler to invade it. Really, it is the same.
Hitler staged “provocations,” including murdering concentration
camp inmates, dressing them in German uniforms, and claiming Poland
had killed them on the border. Israel did (and does) it a bit
differently, killing Palestinians, rounding up hundreds, trashing and
demolishing homes, until Hamas was provoked into shooting some
rockets onto Israeli territory. That gave Netanyahu the pretext to
start aerial and naval bombardments of Gaza, and now another
invasion.

Israel shells a hospital, again,
killing patients while they were in surgery. Al-Aksa hospital. The
genuine atrocities Israel is committing elicits no response from the
propaganda system of the U.S. bloc, which is daily trying to stoke
outrage over the accidental downing of a Malaysian airliner
flying over a Ukraine war zone, where it had no business being.

Israel is sadistically using illegal
flechette explosives, which explode in the air and spew thousands of
tiny steel darts which rip human flesh and embed themselves in
people’s bodies, making treatment and removal difficult.
(Especially when the hospitals are being bombarded, ambulances
targeted on the streets, and medical supplies have run out.)

The establishment U.S. media are acting
as accomplices, indeed as aiders and abetters, to Israel’s war
crimes.

“Hamas exploits journalist as human
shields!” Israel announced. Israel further said that therefore it
wasn’t responsible for journalists killed by Israel. The next day
they murdered a journalist. So obviously this was premeditated
murder.

Ambulances and journalists have been
specifically targeted by Israel.

Meanwhile, U.S. politicians and the
government give complete support to Israel. One line you hear from
government officials from Obama and Kerry on down, and then dutifully
parroted by a media chorus of propagandists is “no nation would
tolerate rockets being fired at it.” (Apparently Palestinians
should tolerate mass arrests, killings, bombings of hospitals, etc.)
Another line is “Israel has the right to defend itself.” So war
crimes, deliberate murders of civilians, etc., is “self-defense.”
This is truly sick stuff.

But "the world's attention" (i.e. a massive propaganda campaign is going on) is focused on the accidental downing of a Malaysian airliner stupidly flying over a war zone. (The FAA banned flights over eastern Ukraine, and normal airlines stopped overflying the area weeks and even months ago.) The Kiev regime has been bombing towns and cities from the air, so naturally the rebels in the east attempt to shoot down planes. The Malaysian jet was flying at 33,000 feet, so it was just a blip on a radar screen. A blip that would be the same as the Kiev regime's military transport plane the rebels shot down a few weeks ago.The Kiev regime released intercepted rebel communications that prove they didn't know it was a civilian jet until they went to examine the wreckage. Naturally, the regime and their backers in the U.S. bloc government and commercial media are cynically ignoring that fact and presenting it as a deliberate atrocity, to "rally the world against Russia." (The way the U.S. media has been carrying on, you'd think Putin personally launched the anti-aircraft missile.)

I'm working on a longer piece about this travesty, and the sickening double standard of ginned up outrage, so typical of Western imperialist hypocrisy when it comes to life and death.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

That’s the tally of dead bodies that
Israel has racked up so far. Hamas’ 1,000 rockets, about which much
hysteria is beamed to international publics through Israeli-aligned
Western propaganda systems, has killed a grand total of ZERO
Israelis. The sole Israeli death so far was caused by a mortar shell.
So much for the “terror” being inflicted on the Israeli
population, according to U.S. Emperor Obama, who apparently doesn’t
think the Palestinians have human feelings. I would say the
relentless Israeli bombardment with their U.S.-provided arsenal, is
creating a lot more fear among Palestinians than what the Israeli
public is experiencing. In fact, anyone in Israel experiencing more
than anxiety is a scaredy-cat. The vast majority of the rockets fired
into Israel land on dirt, too far from anyone or anything to do any
damage or cause any casualties. Furthermore, their U.S.-financed Iron
Dome missile defense system is reportedly shooting down a sizable
fraction of those rockets. Finally, Israelis have air raid shelters
to go to- Palestinians don’t.

As for the wounded, there are over
1,600 on the Palestinian side, about a dozen on the Israeli. 50
Palestinian children have been killed in ten days by Israel’s
oh-so-accurate aerial attacks. (Israeli shills have boasted about how
accurate they are- so let’s take them at their word and not assume
the slaugher of civilians is “accidental” or “mistaken”.) The
UN says 80% of the Palestinian dead were civilians. (But everybody
knows the UN is anti-Semitic, right?)

But let us review how this started.
Three Jewish colonizer teenagers were kidnapped. One called the
police on his cellphone and reported they had been seized. It
turns out that the police then heard gunshots over the phone. This
fact was suppressed on orders of Israeli prime
minister Binyamin Netanyahu, under Israeli censorship laws
that give the government the power to muzzle the media, using
the standard excuse, “security.” Then for several weeks a
frantic, bogus “search” ensued, which was a pretext for the
Israeli army and secret police to smash into hundreds of Palestinian
homes (destroying property and looting some, for good measure), round
up several hundred Palestinians, and KILL eleven Palestinians. This
cynical operation of a bogus search for “missing” teens has been
kept hidden by the venal U.S. establishment media, who are NOT
subject to Israeli government censorship. (Apparently the
self-censorship imposed by their own iron ideological discipline
serves just as well as government control.)

Eventually civilian Israeli colonists
found the three slain teens’ bodies, buried near the surface. At
least that’s the story they’re telling us now. (Could be true.)

Then, not satisfied with the eleven
Palestinians already killed by Israeli “security forces,”
“settlers” tried to kidnap an 8-year old Palestinian boy,
slashing his throat in the process (superficially- photos have been
published) then finding a 16 -year old Palestinian victim, who they
sadistically burned alive (according to the Israeli autopsy). After
that, Israeli “Border Police” brutally beat the face and head of
the victim’s 15-year old cousin at a protest against the murder.

Naturally, the puppet “Palestinian
Authority,” at this point virtually a wholly-own creature of the
U.S., was passive through all this. (The PA’s “security services”
are creations of and proteges of the CIA, which trains and guides
them) Finally Hamas responded to the provocation the arrests of
numerous Hamas members, including the Speaker of the Palestinian
parliament, by firing rockets at Israel. Literally just at the
country. Apparently these homemade rockets can’t hit the broad side
of a barn.

This gave Israel the excuse it was
looking for to start its third aerial bombing campaign on the Gazan
open air concentration camp in 6 years.

Since then, another 221 (as of today)
Palestinians have been killed, and over 1,600 wounded, some
grievously maimed or burned, trapped in a prison with a dearth of
medical supplies, much less advanced treatment and rehabilitation
facilities. There are already numerous amputees.

Netanyahu’s main motive is to break
up the newly-formed coalition government between Hamas and the PA.
Israel reacted hysterically to this tentative Palestinian unity.
Naturally Israel wants to keep the oppressed Palestinian population
divided.

A couple of days ago, U.S. Secretary of
State John “Skull and Bonesman” Kerry called Egyptian dictator
Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and told him to call Netanyahu to cook up a
scheme to guard the Israelis on the public relations flank. They came
up with a “ceasefire” deal, without telling Hamas, which Hamas
rejected, as the three conspiring parties knew they would. [1]

Sure enough, Netanyahu followed up
by saying Hamas had “shut the door” to a diplomatic “solution.”
In other words, he can pretend HE TRIED to stop bombing Gaza, after
over a thousand air sorties, plus naval bombardment, but Hamas JUST
WON’T LET HIM. So he has NO CHOICE to continue the slaughter and
destruction, and maybe invade again for good measure.

How very clever!

Not that Hamas
isn’t playing right into Netanyahu’s hands. But in a way, he’s
playing into theirs too. Their refusal to say uncle, their continued
defiant (if militarily futile) rocket firing at Israel, builds up
their stature in the eyes of Palestinians, who see them resisting (at
great cost to the Palestinians) Israeli occupation, imprisonment, and
endless oppression. So once again Israel undercuts the very puppet PA
regime it relies on to deliver the Palestinian people to the
surrender table. (I’m being a bit unfair to the PA; it’s more
complicated than a simple puppet relationship, largely because the PA
has to try and maintain SOME credibility with the people it misrules
as surrogate for Israel and the U.S., but it will take up too much
time and space to explain all the nuances here.)

The fundamental “problem,” from the
point of view of Israeli imperialism and its U.S. and European
backers, is that the Palestinian people stubbornly refuse to
surrender. They refuse to recognize their status as a defeated
people doomed to be perpetually oppressed. The “peace process”
has always been a disguised surrender process- but the Palestinians
won’t surrender. Thus, they must be made to suffer until they
resign themselves to defeat. Oddly, they persevere, despite their
hopeless situation. It’s enough to remind one of Jewish
perseverance over the centuries. (Is that idea “anti-Semitic”?
Ask a Zionist!)

7/17/14 Israeli gunboat slaughters 4
children, cousins, ages 9-11, in broad daylight on a beach in Gaza.
This was done in full view of the international media, whose
personnel were in a hotel right on the beach. First the gunboat blew
up a shack on the beach, then 30 seconds later lobbed a shell at the
fleeing kids, killing four of them, wounding others, and wounding a
man, with shrapnel. The beach was otherwise empty, and the children
were clearly children playing soccer, visible to the reporters’
naked eyes hundreds of yards away (and certainly easily identifiable
to the Israelis with their binoculars an sophisticated surveillance
equipment).

BBC covers up these details, instead
feeding us Israeli president Shimon Peres’ propaganda. Slying
combining crocodile tears with shifting the blame onto the
Palestinians, Peres, a lifelong Zionist bigwig and top overseer of
the creation of Israel’s nuclear arsenal, said this:

“It wasn't intentional and we are
really sorry to see four children being killed. I think the air force
[sic-this particular atrocity was by an Israeli navy
gunboat] is taking the maximum care not to hit children. And it
was an accident because it was an area that we warned would be
bombed, because there was a great concentration of weapons. And
unfortunately they didn't take out the children.”

First, it very obviously WAS
intentional, as numerous eyewitnesses from the international media
can attest. Second, the Israelis aren’t sorry at all. They have
been killing Palestinian children, deliberately, for decades. They
don’t want them to grow up. This is part of their population
control of the Palestinians, along with stunting their growth by
limiting food supplies (“keeping them on a diet,” in their own
cynical insider phrase).

Third, there were NO weapons there,
much less “a great concentration.” And finally he blames the
Palestinians, for not hiding their children in an underground bunker
or something, I guess. Reminds one of the sneering, laughing comment
by one of the U.S. Apache helicopter murderers in the infamous
“collateral murder” video that Chelsea Manning gave to WikiLeaks.
After shooting up a van full of children, he says to his fellow
crewmen something like That’s what they get for bringing their
children to a firefight.” (This was the murder of a Reuters camera
crew walking in Baghdad, along with other civilians. You can search
youtube.com for “collateral murder video” for numerous versions
of it.)

The attack on Gaza is what the Israeli
military police state calls “mowing the lawn,” the need to
periodically stomp down on the Palestinian people.

A Malaysian airliner went down today over eastern Ukraine, an area where the Kiev client regime of the U.S. and EU has been waging a military offensive to wipe out what it calls "terrorists" (secessionists and rebels, presumably backed by Russia). The U.S. is already putting it out in whispers into friendly media ears that a surface to air missile brought the civilian airliner down. Putin mentioned the plane crash/shootdownduring a phone call with Emperor Obama of the U.S.Two main possibilities suggest themselves here. 1) Rebels made a bad mistake or did something stupid. It certainly couldn't benefit them to commit such an atrocity. 2) The Kiev regime arranged a shootdown to blame it on the "terrorists" (shooting down airliners is the kind of thing "terrorists" do, right?).Under 2), there are a few possibilities. Kiev's "National Guard," filled with fascists, could have done the deed. Or it could be a false flag operation, just as the snipers who killed numerous policemen and rioters during the siege of government buildings in Kiev that led to the overthrow of the previous elected president of Ukraine, were a false flag operation, as revealed in an intercepted phone call between the Estonian foreign minister and EU poohbah Catherine Ashton. [1]Just a few days ago the Kiev regime apparently lobbed an artillery shell into Russia, killing a Russian citizen, then denied they did it. They seem to be trying to provoke a Russian invasion (which they've been screeching about for months) in order to bring in more Western military might. An arranged airliner atrocity by "terrorists backed by Russia" could be a provocation, as well as providing useful agit-propaganda material as a bonus.And Emperor Obama has just announced sanctions against various Russian companies, trying to cut them off from the U.S.-dominated international financial system. Interesting coincidence of timing, but it's too soon to speculate if there's a connection. Obama announced the new sanctions as punishment for Russia "interfering" in Ukraine, and its failure to order the rebels to surrender.Speaking of shooting down civilian airliners, the U.S. bloc has a long and nasty history of that sort of thing. The U.S. infamously sponsored the Cuban exile fascist terrorists Orlando Bosch and Luis Posada Carriles, who planted a bomb on a Cuban civilian airliner, killing all 78 people on board. In particular, the senior George Bush protected them, both as CIA director, and later as Emperor of the U.S., but the protection is extended by the entire police state of the U.S. and most of the establishment media. Under Emperor Reagan, the U.S. navy ship Vincennes infamously deliberately. shot down an Iranian jetliner over the Persian Gulf. And Israel shot down a Libyan civilian jetliner over the Sinai desert. The U.S. and Israeli-backed South African apartheid regime used a decoy radio beacon to lure the plane of Mozambican president Samora Machel into a mountainside. And speaking of false flag ops, the U.S. military had a plan to shoot down a CIA drone aircraft disguised as a civilian airliner, using a fake U.S. MiG, and pretend the Castro regime did it, as a pretext for a U.S. invasion.1] See "Ukraine Snipers Worked For U.S. Puppet Government, Estonian Foreign Minister Told Ashton," where you can listen to the phone call and read an analysis of it.

Friday, July 11, 2014

So what is the focus of the U.S. media?
Hamas rocket fire, of course. Par for the course.

As usual, the Hamas rockets land almost
entirely ineffectually. Israel, on the other hand, thanks to its
U.S.-supplied F-16 fighter jets and U.S.-supplied munitions, is
lethally effective. For good measure, Israel has been shelling Gaza
from the sea.

Entire families have been wiped out. A
cafe blown off the face of the earth, killing terrorist World Cup
fans watching Television. (They must be terrorists, right? Anyone
Israel or the U.S. kills is by definition a posthumous terrorist.
Actually Israel called that one a “mistake.” On the other
hand, they whispered in various reporters’ ears that they were
targeting a single man allegedly present. Well he shouldn’t be
using people as human shields! He should stand in the middle of
nowhere with a target on his back! Actually Gaza is so tightly packed
with people, there are no areas where a bombardment by air and sea,
as Israel is conducting, wouldn’t kill “human shields” that
“terrorists hide behind.”)

On top of 101 dead Palestinians (about
half women and children), over 700 have been wounded- and the Gaza
hospital lacks medical supplies.

The U.S. calls all this “self-defense”
by Israel. The U.S. Secretary of State, the unbearable blowhard Skull
and Bonesman John Kerry thundered that “no nation!” would or
could tolerate rockets fired at it. (Actually plenty of
nations have had to tolerate that, and worse. Victims of U.S.
aggression, for example. And Lebanon, attacked repeatedly by Israel.
But never mind. No point going once again through the futile exercise
of illuminating the breathtaking hypocrisy and utter contempt for
historical facts of the U.S. imperialist overlords.)

Israel has called
up 40,000 reservists and is massing its army on the border with Gaza
in preparation for a land invasion. Israel’s “intelligence”
head has openly proclaimed the need to occupy Gaza for a spell, to
root out Hamas.

A standard trope
of Israeli propaganda (repeated by their supine parrots, the U.S.
media) is that Hamas rocket fire is “indiscriminate.”
“Indiscriminate” is code for inaccurate. It’s
Israel that is killing people indiscriminately. It actually tacitly
admits this by its standard justification line: “Hamas is using
human shields! Hamas hides behind the civilian population! (Ergo, we
have to blow up their shields.)”

Not to defend
Hamas- those fanatics have brought down pointless suffering and death
on the Palestinians in the Gaza open air concentration camp since the
Israelis threw in the towel on “settling” Gaza. They had 10,000
army troops to defend 8,000 colonizers. Ariel Sharon The Slaughterer
made a pragmatic decision that the cost wasn’t worth it. Instead he
decided to concentrate on driving the Palestinians out of conquered
East Jerusalem and expanding the colonial effort in “Judea and
Samaria” (the West Bank to the world outside of Israel and Zionist
circles). Hamas at that point made the very poor decision to lob
ineffectual rockets into Israel. This provided a pretext for Israeli
attacks, and also a propaganda coup for Israel, which could say “You
see? We withdrew from Gaza and they respond with attacks on our
civilians. They don’t want peace.” This also helped harden the
attitude of the Israeli public towards Palestinians. Probably 90% of
the Israeli public at this point viscerally despises the
Palestinians, and some large percentage would be glad to see them
exterminated.

Now Hamas, with
its suicidal bravado, is giving Israel another excuse to butcher
Palestinians and once again reduce their pathetic infrastructure to
rubble. (This will be the third time in 6 years Israel has done this.
They also do it to Lebanon every decade or so.)

Let’s recap how
the current situation started. Parties unknown kidnapped and shot
dead three Israeli teenaged colonists, burying their bodies. Israel
blamed Hamas, presenting no evidence; Hamas denied it. (Without
evidence, we cannot know who did it, but as I previously wrote, it
doesn’t have Hamas’ M.O. That by itself doesn’t rule out
Hamas.) Israel went on a rampage in the West Bank to try and find the
missing teens, arresting around 400 Palestinians and killing 7 in the
process- already double the number of missing Israelis. In response,
rockets were fired from Gaza, perhaps by Hamas, perhaps by a fringe
group. When after several weeks, the bodies of the teens were found,
Jewish colonists kidnapped a 16 year old Palestinian boy, Muhammad
Abu Khdeir, and burned him alive (as an Israeli autopsy discovered-
burns in the air passages of the victim established that).
Subsequently his teen cousin, who was visiting from Florida and is an
American, was savagely beaten unconscious by Israeli police at a
demonstration by Palestinians angry over Khdeir’s murder. (The
Israelis claim he had a slingshot. Well, ok then, beat him
unconscious!) Only because the beating was captured on video did
anything come of this. The U.S. mildly objected, so Khdeir was put
under house arrest and fined. (Fine before conviction- that must be
another Israeli innovation in repression.) Well, that’s more than
the U.S. did when Rachel Corrie was murdered by an Israeli army
bulldozer driver, obvious acting under orders, or when scores of
American sailors and killed and wounded when Israel tried to sink the
U.S.S. Liberty in 1967, so maybe that’s progress. (Not
really.)

It doesn’t
matter what the Palestinians do- their situation is hopeless. Israel
respond to peaceful Palestinian protests the same way it responds to
Palestinian violence- with violence. And in fact it has always done
so, and that is well documented, including by Israelis. So the fact
that the Palestinians are an oppressed people cannot be denied.

And the U.S.
imposes its usual double standard. Violence is fine to achieve its
ends. When it doesn’t like a regime, it will support violence
against that regime, as it did earlier this year in Ukraine. The U.S.
has supported numerous guerrilla and terrorist groups historically.
But the Palestinians aren’t even allowed to join international
organizations without suffering reprisals by the U.S. and Israel.
They are supposed to docilely participate in the charade called “the
peace process,” which is nothing more than the creeping
Bantustanization of the Palestinians. Recall that during the 8 years
of the “Oslo process” under the mass murderer Bill Clinton, the
colonizer population doubled. Which put the lie to the idea
that the Israelis were negotiating a handover of the West Bank (much
less East Jerusalem, although to this day those lies are repeated,
along with the claim that Arafat ruined everything).

Meanwhile the
cynical, feckless, and cruel Arab regimes once more do nothing to
help the Palestinians, instead spouting anti-Semitic crap to dupe
their credulous publics. Thus the worst of both worlds- anti-Semitism
with no actual opposition to Israeli imperialism and repression, but
in fact secret connivance. The Saudis in particular are secretly
tight with Israel. Jordan is an Israeli ally in all but official
name. And Egypt has been a co-repressor of the Palestinians with
Israel for decades.

But the new
Egyptian military dictator, Sisi, is all heart. He decided to allowed
badly wounded Palestinians (no one else) to pass through the Rafa
border crossing into Egypt for medical care. Otherwise the blockade
of Gaza by Egypt stands. (Palestinians have to dig tunnels, like
moles, to get even basic supplies. Israel is now bombing those
tunnels- again.) A whole 20 ambulances- 20! have been sent by Egypt
to the border.

Thursday, July 03, 2014

The drama of the missing and presumed
kidnapped Israeli teenagers, who disappeared in the West Bank
hitchhiking home from religious school, has concluded Act One with
the discovery of their bodies in a shallow grave near Hebron by
civilian searchers. Act Two will be the intensification of the
violent Israeli response, which has already claimed the lives of
seven young Palestinians (including minors), the rounding up and
imprisonment of hundreds (who of course are being subjected to
Israel’s version of non-torture torture), mass raids and
destruction of property and the demolition of several homes already
with all their inhabitants’ earthly belongings inside- homes of two
men Israel blames for the killings of the three teens. [1]

The shooting of the Israeli Jewish
teens was “brutal,” a “brutal” killing. The shooting of 7
(and counting) Palestinians isn’t “brutal,” aren’t
“shootings,” aren’t even killings, in the active verb sense.
Palestinians are merely “killed,” as if by a falling tree branch.
“Seven Palestinians have been killed” by some unnamed force, is
how U.S. and much of the Western media describes it- when they even
mention it, which they do barely at all.

"There can be no forgiveness for
the killers of children and those who sent them. Now is the time to
act," Israel's economy minister, Naftali Bennett, said in a
statement.

The “liberal” British paper the
Guardian went into detail about the grief and pain of Israelis over
the fate of the three youths. They also got around to mentioning what
the Israeli military and police were doing in the meantime to the
Palestinians, in a brief paragraph, the tenth:

“The hunt for the three missing
youths has seen several hundred Palestinians rounded up in a massive
operation – often without charge or connection to the kidnapping –
and five [as of that writing] Palestinians, including a number of
minors, killed.” Check out the anonymizing phrase, “a number of
minors.”

That’s it on Palestinian losses and
suffering. Then the article returns to the business of focusing on
Israeli’s pain, and descriptions of weeping. [1]

Which I am not scoffing at. I am
pointing out the selective empathy, where the people of the
nation backed by the West is populated by feeling human beings, and
their victims, the Palestinians, are ciphers at best and terrorists
at worst. The deaths and maimings of Palestinians are mere
statistics. The destruction of tens of thousands of Palestinian homes
not worthy of mention, except occasionally one at a time as an aside.
Focusing on the handful of Israeli Jews who are occasionally killed,
and the mostly impotent rockets landing on Israeli soil, paints the
picture of the Israeli Jews as the victims of the Palestinians- a
grotesque and vulgar inversion of reality that Western publics have
been indoctrinated with over decades. Here is an example of lying
by selective emphasis, and
denying, ignoring, and deemphasizing what needs to be kept concealed
to sustain the grossly misleading, fundamentally mendacious
narrative.

The Guardian even serves up a
quote from a neighbor of the slain teens which neatly inverts
reality, and offers nothing to contradict or correct her utterly
twisted and delusional statement: "When the Arabs are doing the
killing the world stays silent, it is always Israel [who is
criticised]."

In some alternate universe, that is.
Maybe she’s living in one of those hidden extra dimensions
physicists like to speculate about.

Obama issued this fulmination: "The
United States condemns in the strongest possible terms this senseless
act of terror against innocent youth." Namely the Jewish youth.
On the Palestinian youths and young adults killed by the Israeli
army, not a peep. But then, there never is when Palestinians are
killed, as thousands have been over the years by Israel. But why
would the U.S., a nation that has murdered millions, complain about
that. It only denounces killings by official enemies.

This one-sided outrage has to be called
propaganda. If there was genuine humanitarianism and morality
operating here, the U.S. media and government wouldn’t be ignoring
the slayings of Palestinians. The Western Establishment is continuing
its decades-long policy of hostility and demonization of Palestinians
and complete backing of Israel.

The head of the U.S. parrot government
of “Great” Britain weighed in. British prime minister David
Cameron emitted this: "I am deeply saddened by the news that the
bodies of the three Israeli boys ... have been found ... This was an
appalling and inexcusable act of terror perpetrated against young
teenagers. Britain will stand with Israel as it seeks to bring to
justice those responsible." Nothing ever said about any of the 7
Palestinians killed. On top of the tens of thousands killed by Israel
starting in 1948, I might add. (And not only by Israel, but by Egypt
and the U.S. satrapy Jordan too. And of course the U.S. has killed
some too, for good measure.)

Israel’s Nazi-type tactics of mass
roundups, property destruction, and random murders are simply
mentioned in passing, neutrally, by Western media, and ignored by the
governments. Not worth paying attention to. The fate of three
teenaged colonists is of burning import.

The Israeli political bosses are
continuing to insist, as they have since the teens first went
missing, that Hamas is “responsible,” they did it, they’re
guilty, indeed in the words of Binyamin Netanyahu, the Remorseless
One, the culprits are “wild beasts.” (I.e. subhuman and thus
worthy of summary execution.) He issued a bone-chilling threat:
"Hamas is responsible, and Hamas will pay."

Hamas, as it has all along, continues
to deny they kidnapped, and killed, the teens. Hamas is in the
difficult position of trying to prove a negative. The Israelis, for
their part, have offered no evidence or factual assertions to back up
their claim that Hamas is guilty. Nor do they need to, since as far
as Western elites (government and media) are concerned, Hamas has
zero credibility so their denials can be discounted. Hamas is, after
all, branded a “terrorist” organization by the U.S. and its
Eurolackeys. Once an organization or individual is categorized as
“terrorist,” accusation equals proof, no evidence or facts
required. Thus the accusations of those with the power of life and
death becomes a conviction carrrying a death sentence. The chief
executive is a self-appointed judge, jury, and executioner. (Barack
Obama and Binyamin Netanyahu being two examples of this.) Mere
assertion of guilt is proof of guilt. Then the state carries out the
“sentence”- generally death by assassination.

Now, I have no idea whether Hamas, as
an organization, planned and carried out the kidnapping and slayings
of the three teens, or if people associated with Hamas, or
lower-ranking members, did it without higher authorization, or if
Hamas wasn’t connected with it at all. Let us keep in mind that
this occurred in the West Bank, around Hebron. Hamas is in Gaza. The
“Palestinian Authority” and Israel itself control the West Bank.
(“Judea and Samaria,” in Israeli-speak, a term, redolent of
ancient Holiness, which should leave no doubt about their intention
to absorb as much of that conquered territory as is practical for
them to do.) Secondly, coming so soon after a new unity government
between Hamas and the PA, the timing would be profounding
counterproductive. Israel has been at pains to keep the Palestinians
divided (a divided people are easier to oppress and rule), and went
ballistic when the unity agreement was announced just a few weeks
before the kidnapping. This has given Netanyahu a pretext to try to
smash up the unity government. Thirdly, Hamas has never been shy
about taking credit for their acts of violence against Israel and
Israelis, on the principle of The Deed as Propaganda. They build up
their credibility and reputation (and thus support) among
Palestinians by advertising their attacks. An act like this in which
they claim to have no responsibility does not bring them any
political benefit. It only brings ferocious Israeli assaults. The
only theory I can think of which would explain Hamas behaving in such
a way would be a desire by them to bring Israeli punishment on
Palestinians to radicalize them. But Palestinians hardly need to be
convinced to hate Israel at this point. And as I’ve pointed out,
the downsides are considerable.

Another possibility, and I am not
saying this is what happened, just that it is a hypothetical
possibility at least, is an Israeli false flag operation or a
manipulation of a radical group or individuals put up or steered to
doing this in order to have a pretext to try and violently break up
the Palestinian government. I doubt it, but given the ruthlessness
and cynicism of governments generally, and certainly of the Israeli
government, it can’t be ruled out categorically, although I would
put the probability as very low, like one percent or less. [3]

Another benefit for Netanyahu and
Israel from the martyrdom of the three teens is it allows a
psychological/emotional/propaganda pushback against the Boycott,
Divestiture, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, which just scored a
victory when the Presbyterian church, in a close vote, voted to sell
stock in criminal corporations that supply Israel with important
weapons of repression, namely Caterpillar (armored home demolition
bulldozers), Motorola, and Hewlett-Packard (electronic surveillance
and police state computer equipment). This event received prominent
play in the New York Times, and evoked howls of outrage and moral
indignation from the usual prominent agents of Israel in the U.S.
Indeed, some of these American agents, acting as emissaries for the
Government of Israel, offered the Presbyterian leadership an audience
with Netanyahu himself (apparently this is to be seen as a great
privilege) if they would NOT EVEN TAKE A VOTE on divestiture. This
oh-so-generous offer was declined by the Presbyterians, and the vote
was duly held.

Already Jewish vigilantes, apparently
deciding that seven dead Palestinians aren’t enough, have
kidnapped, tortured, and murdered a 16-year-old Palestinian boy,
whose badly burned body was found. Israeli air raids have been
intensified. (A pregnant woman was wounded in one.) The Palestinian
firing of rockets into Israel from Gaza, which started as a reaction
to the massive Israeli sweep in the West Bank and has continued in
defiance of Israeli air raids, is used, as it always is, as the
“reason” for Israeli bombing runs (with free jets and bombs
supplied by the U.S.).

Past kill ratios of Jews to
Palestinians have ranged from 10 to 1 to 100 to 1. Since the current
ratio is only up to about 3 to one, there’s a way to go yet before
Israel’s thirst for revenge is slaked.

Whatever the Palestinians do, their
situation is hopeless. Peaceful protest, negotiation, violence,
terrorism, diplomacy- all is futile. Their fate is heartbreaking.

3] Given what we know
about what governments HAVE done, we would be foolish to rule out any
possibility. The assassination of the president of the U.S. in 1963
by the “security services” with the collaboration of others is a
prime example. Remember, also, that entrenched fascist elements of
the U.S. state, guided by none other than Richard Cheney, planted
nano-thermite explosives in the World Trade Center twin towers and in
7 World Trade Center, blowing them up September 11, 2001, a day that
should live in infamy for reasons still unknown to most Americans,
indeed to most people on this planet, thereby killing most of the
almost 3,000 people who died on that day, plus another 1,000 who
subsequently died from illnesses contracted from working in the ruins
without respirators, thanks to the homicidal lies by the Bush regime
and its Environmental “Protection” Agency head, Christine Todd
Whitman, a member of the New Jersey landed gentry, horsewoman, and
former Governor of that state, that the air was safe to breathe,
which it obviously was not. The ruins in fact gave off noxious fumes
that could be smelled miles away, for several months, and that caused
me for one to cough. The very notion that pulverized lead, asbestos,
concrete, and numerous hazardous substances contained in computer
equipment and etc. crushed to dust in the explosions and collapses,
was somehow harmless, is ludicrous on its face. So the kind of
ruthless people who rule many nations are certainly not inhibited
about sacrificing their own citizens in pursuit of their political
goals.

This should not surprise or shock
anyone. What, after all, is war, but the sacrifice of the citizens
for the Great Glory of the Rulers? (Yes, we can make exceptions for
defensive wars, but in those cases only one side is fighting in
self-defense.)

Since October, over 50,000 children and
teenagers have entered the U.S. from the three Central American
hellholes created directly by the U.S.: Guatemala, Honduras, and El
Salvador. In each case, those societies have been brutally maimed by
U.S. power which destroyed the democratic developments in each and
has imposed fascist state terror regimes. Life in them has now
degenerated to the point of complete non-livability.

Hence the mass, desperate migration of
refugees.

Ignoring international and human rights
law, the U.S. ships these kids back to the lethal environments they
fled.

Obama has asked Congress for $2 billion
to fast track deportations of these youths. The money would be much
better spent instead on social and economic development for those
nations the U.S. destroyed with its creation and indoctrination of
depraved militaries there.

Wednesday, July 02, 2014

Thank Barack Hussein Obama for that,
honey. He’s the guy who had the Egyptian secret police break your
arm in the Cairo airport. He owes Sisi a favor for that. (Just a very
personal reason for the Obama regime to support the Egyptian military
tyranny, in addition to the “American interests,” that is, the
reasons of state that the American populace need to be kept ignorant
of. But if you know how to translate the euphemisms, you can find out
the reasons of state in rags like ForeignAffairs, the
organ of the New York City-based Council on Foreign Relations, where
members of the U.S. imperialist nomenklatura hang out between their
stints committing crimes inside the U.S. government.)

I wonder which secret police agency
will grab the honor of informing the Emperor of Benjamin’s
condition? They’ll probably be tripping over each other to be the
first.

Medea Benjamin committed the crime of
interrupting one of Obama’s propaganda speeches with pointed
questions shouted concerning his violence. Of course the
establishment media made sure to keep her punishment a secret from
people who are still dumb enough to rely on it for news. I can
imagine a very different reaction of the “thuggish” Putin had
done such a thing.

*Medea Benjamin in her own words on
WBAI Pacifica Radio, July 1st, 2014, 6:47 pm EST.